Are we losing our wildlife to benches and ballparks? New research shows how smart designs can avoid it. Across the United States, more than 440 national parks and 7,400 urban parks offer a variety of ...

Urban green spaces are disappearing from New Zealand cities, at a time when denser housing is being planned in many areas. Overall, the total area of green space is reasonable in New Zealand cities ...

Helping communities manage green spaces by understanding how they use and value the area could be an effective way for local governments to tackle the biodiversity crisis, according to a new study ...

Urban greenery—like trees and other green spaces in what are otherwise concrete jungles—can help cool down cities, clean the air and encourage foot traffic, which might have the added benefit of ...

A study published in the journal PNAS claims that urban green space has only a moderate effect on air pollution control and that street-level vegetation can actually increase air pollution by ...

Access to nature is essential for our health and wellbeing. However, as our cities become increasingly crowded, it becomes more and more challenging to find ways to connect with nature in urban spaces ...

You may not have noticed it, but a butterfly or bee certainly has. It’s a strip of dirt and grass between a sidewalk and a street, or an empty lot, or greenery running along a railway. Compared to an ...

Noah Moon and Logan Goswick started gardening during the COVID-19 lockdown, and are now board members of the Gardens at ASU club. While they have enjoyed this hobby for years, they have also noticed ...